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We normally don't get to our shop till 4:30, and then stay till 8.

We go full blast the first week, everyday, including saturdays from 8-4/5.

Then we slow down and meet three days a week, and then saturdays.
And then we realize that we're behind scheduale and go full blast again around week 3 1/2

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Our team meets Saturdays from 10 to 7, Sundays 11 to 5, and days off from school with Saturday hours.

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Weekdays 2:30-7 or 8, Saturdays 9-3, a special Sunday session tomorrow because we only ahd the crate team meet yesterday. A lot of team members were taking the ACT.

Next week saturday, I'm sure is going to be 9-9 at least :)

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well we work from 2:30 to 10:00 on weekdays and 10:00 to 10:00 on weekends and sometimes we will be at our shop until 2am

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Depends on your goals.
This year, 1712 Meets
Mon - 2:40-9
Tues - 2:40-9
Sat - Varies (5-7 hours)
-Roughly 18-20 hours/week ...
plus we squeeze in more hours "virtually" working on award entries and mentors spend "off days" researching for coding, rules, etc.

We don't meet as much as many others do, more than some. Bottom line is you always need to work at maximizing the time you have and keep your goals realistically matched if you don't want to get overwhelmed at the end.

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M-F: 5-8
Sat: 9-5

That's pretty much the build schedule this year, although, we have worked on the Saturday & Sundays of the last 2 weeks in previous years, but can't due to Asbestos cleaning on Sunday's at the HS this year & we have worked from 4-8 other years on the weekdays.

All of this is at the High School we are based out of btw.
No outside sponsor locations.

This year, we are VERY GLAD we finished the robot as much as we have so far*, because we can not get into our school at all from Sat. Feb 14th to beyond ship date due to spring vacation.

The robot will be shipped by a sponsor more-than-likely again, but it will probably be done on the Monday (16th) before ship date (17th) anyways if we attend the pre-ship scrimmage in the state.


*About 98% as of today I would guesstimate - so much so we took it all apart & are painting it, powder coating it, & anodizing it this year for the first time ever!

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Bedford Express meets 6 days a week.

Monday-Thursday 6 P.M. - 9 P.M.
Friday Day Off
Saturday 1 P.M. - 8 P.M.
Sunday 1 P.M. - 5 P.M.

Which gives a total of 23 hours a week.

Through week 5 we have been able to keep to the schedule with only 1 Friday meeting. Our mentors are amazing because they usually come straight from a full day of work to our 3 hour meeting. We are meeting more this year than in years prior but it is paying off because we are finishing the robot earlier.

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Both 1155 and 2265 meet from the time school ends (4 PM) to 8-9 PM on Weekdays. On the weekends we meet from 9 AM to 4 PM. On weekdays that we don't have school (and if there are no midterms/regents on those days) we meet from 10 AM to 8 PM.

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M: 6-9
T: 6-9
W:6-9
Th: 7-8:30-ish (team meeting; no regular work session)
F: 6-9
Sat: 12-9, with a dinner break around 5
Sun: 1-4

Last year was pretty much the same thing, though we started putting in more hours on Saturdays as we got closer to ship. I definitely remember working 9 to 9 on a few Saturdays (Eating breakfast, lunch, AND dinner with the team...how can it get better than that?). The only things stopping us from working 3:30-whoknowswhen on weekdays are mentor availability, homework, and the school kicking us out at 9. Starting on the Saturday before ship up until that sad time when we have to crate the robot (oh, sorry, we're ziplock bagging our bots this year. My bad xD), it's pretty much all day.

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we work:

3:10-7:00 M/T/W/TH/F
10:00-7:00 Saturday
Off Sunday

towards the end of the season we work late, last wed. we worked til 11 one night and next week we're expecting some really long nights.